The journey to sweep the Liaodong Peninsula was much easier than Suning imagined, Suning thought that such a large area of land on the Liaodong Peninsula would at least have a few decent cities and defensive fortresses and the like, but unfortunately there was no such place at all, and the Southern Expeditionary Army did not encounter any decent enemies at all, and encountered a few small fishing villages, which relied on the sea to eat the sea, and took the initiative to surrender without beating others.

The reason is not very unexpected, those people are standard Han people, speaking standard Chinese, a question to know that these people are all Shandong people who fled here to take refuge during the chaos of the Central Plains at the end of the Sui Dynasty, the control of the Goguryeo government has not reached here at all, this is basically a three-regardless area, some older people have formed a township elders to govern the place, originally constantly inquiring about the news, I heard that the Tang Dynasty has settled down, decided to go back, is building sea ships, now that the Tang Dynasty is here, it will be better.

As for the Northern Expeditionary Army's Northern Expedition to some places further north, it still encountered a lot of resistance, those people are authentic Goguryeo people, which Suning did not encounter when he went south, and now that he has encountered it, he will naturally not be soft, all of them will be captured, and they will be transported back to Datang by sea ship, and these houses and land will not have to be destroyed, they are all the land of Datang, and they do not need to be destroyed, and the grain has grown seedlings, and it can be harvested in the autumn.

Jiang Yishi's 100,000-strong army was the last and largest formed central government army in Goguryeo, and the central government of Goguryeo was burned to the point of collapse by Suning, and most of the central government army was fine because it was outside, and Jiang Yishi, who was loyal to the central government, mastered the largest formed government army, and there was a chance to put things right. However, this army was wiped out by the Suning Combined Navy, and as a result, the last glimmer of hope for the Goguryeo central government was gone.

After a few days of chaos, Suning also tossed in the Liaodong Peninsula for more than a week, the king of Goguryeo was destroyed, the news of the king's capture had already spread out, and even the news that the 100,000 troops with the old general Jiang Yishi were also wiped out by the Tang army, and the news of the death of the old general Jiang Yishi was no longer news, and the Liaodong Peninsula suddenly became a place that all the Goguryeo people feared, and the Goguryeo people in some areas close to it fled to the interior one after another, and even some troops fled with them.

The central government was destroyed. The king was captured. The largest army was completely annihilated, and the most famous old general died on the battlefield, which was both a good thing and a bad thing for the Goguryeo people. Naturally, it is a bad thing for civilians. Don't even think about it. At least there is life support when it is stable, but in the war era, it is not as good as the Taiping dog, so no civilians want war to happen.

But for those feudal officials and careerists. It is a very good thing, the loss of the central government's restraint and deterrence, the collapse of the central government army and the death of the most famous government defenders, have broken the chains tied to these careerists, and under the premise of no other constraints, the generals of the military towns in various places have begun to gather troops to invest, store food, and loot money, in case they need it from time to time, and the local officials have also begun to recruit local young men and strong men to enlist in the army, expand their strength, and prepare to deal with the coming troubled times.

For Goguryeo, the turbulent times are not what many careerists and powerful factions do not want to see, the horror and opportunity of the Tang army coexist at the same time, for some people who do not know the inside story, this is not a bad thing, but the first step in the struggle for hegemony, annexing the surrounding areas, obtaining food, population, land and money to fight against other similar careerists and the Tang army, gathering strong strength, defeating everyone, reborn from the ashes, becoming the new king of Goguryeo, that is their dream.

Of course, it is not that there are no loyal ministers of the Goguryeo Dynasty, nor is there no diehard loyalty of Gao Jianwu, after hearing the news, he almost immediately recruited troops and horses to prepare to go south to the Liaodong Peninsula to rescue the king, and by the way to avenge General Jiang, but after all, such people are a minority, and even only two or three armies have really done this, and most of them have raised the banner of respecting the king and going to the country together, but they are secretly continuing their strength.

For Suning and the Tang army, after ending the unified government of Goguryeo and the unified resistance, what is about to usher in is the chaotic land of Goguryeo, large and small separatist warlord forces, which is a good thing and a bad thing, the good thing is that Goguryeo as a country does not exist zài, but the bad is also bad because Goguryeo's military strength has increased.

This is just like the Three Kingdoms period at the end of the Han Dynasty, the middle and late Eastern Han Dynasty was hit by the northern nomads very strictly, and basically there was no strong resistance and counterattack, but once the shackles of the Han Dynasty were opened, then the chains tied to the heroes in various places were naturally gone, and the military strength of the Han nation became stronger, and the northern warlords such as Gongsun Zhan, Ding Yuan, Dong Zhuo, Yuan Shao, and Cao Cao had a strong strength to fight the nomads.

Gongsun Zhan with his "white horse righteousness" to beat the nomads crying dad and call his mother, called him "white horse general", Ding Yuan after having a fierce general like Lu Bu, but also in the grassland frequent attacks, a large part of Lu Bu's name began to accumulate on the grassland, the grassland cavalry saw Lu Bu's banner and ran for their lives, did not dare to compete with it at all, although Dong Zhuo said brutal, but also a hero, in Liangzhou is also known for his courage and good fighting, he does not spare any hands to deal with the Qiang people, and can even take the Qiang people for his own use.

This is a scene that is difficult to appear under the control of a unified dynasty, but it appeared in the chaotic situation at the end of the Han Dynasty, which is a positive phenomenon of warlord chaos, the military strength of the Han nation has increased, although this is somewhat similar to the thirst quenched, the military strength has increased, the production has been destroyed, and the consequence of overdrawing the national strength in advance is the Wuhu Chaohua, so Goguryeo will be very strange and powerful in a period, but this period must be far shorter than the period of the Three Kingdoms at the end of the Han Dynasty.

The country is so big, the population is so small, and so many refugees have been burned out by Suning, and it can't be strong if you want to be strong! A divided country is, after all, not an opponent of a more powerful unified country, especially since this unified country is quite of a high rank.

Goguryeo did begin to expand its forces and began large-scale training and reinforcement to prepare for the coming troubled times, a period that lasted until the Tang Dynasty soldiers and horses attacked Goguryeo in an all-out way. Goguryeo's army of soldiers and horses doubled from 300,000 to 600,000 from the beginning of the Tang Dynasty, but the price paid was that the productive forces were destroyed, commercial agriculture was depressed, the connection between various powerful factions was severed, and commerce as blood was severely attacked.

Except for a few warlords such as Quangai Suwen, who was based in Anshi City, they would use Juntun to replace the destroyed Mintun system with food, but this could not last long, because the soldiers had to eat, and the people had to eat. And the number of soldiers will definitely be less than the number of civilians. If the people are not given enough land to cultivate and feed them, how can there be soldiers?

In the end, this is just a thirst quenching.

Therefore, Suning does not advocate an immediate march. Instead, move slowly. Steady. Eat the Liaodong Peninsula one bite at a time, and after eating, wipe it dry and wipe it clean. Sit and rest and let it digest for a while, then stand up and continue walking, the army of the Tang Dynasty also needs to rest, after a big war, it didn't have time to recuperate before the southern expedition to the north, it takes a period of time to recuperate, eat something good, nourish fat, and then fight.

The most important thing is to give Goguryeo enough time to organize enough troops, and my Tang soldiers and horses do not go north, just wait and see, when there is a strong foreign enemy attacking, these people will definitely fight together, and there is no strong foreign enemy to attack or the foreign enemy is resting and resting for a long time, these people will inevitably start a dog-eat-dog fight, just like the Spring and Autumn Period of the king of the Emperor, after driving the Huns away, they still keep fighting, which is normal.

We only have more than 30,000 soldiers and horses, and we can't afford to spend it, but we will go later, after this period of limelight, Goguryeo will begin to appear the phenomenon of warlords fighting chaotically, now it is only the incubation period, as long as one person takes the lead, there will be war everywhere, at that time, as long as we do not move, they will definitely fight more ruthlessly, and they will be more ruthless in dealing with their own people than against outsiders.

Zhang Liang and Zhang Shigui were persuaded, so they concentrated on capturing those Goguryeo people, transporting them back to the Beihai Naval Port one by one, loading them into trucks and transporting them to various areas in need and to those who had already ordered.

Here is to mention a phenomenon in Datang today, that is, under the popularization of education and the promotion of high-yield crops and the development of the vegetable basket plan, people's living standards have been greatly improved.

And at the same time, there are also channels for reading, in recent years, fewer and fewer families are willing to send their children to large families to work as coolies, endure hardships and suffer crimes, especially boys, women don't care, although some people say that women can also read, which is good for husbands and children in the future, but women must be relatively few people to study, men have not yet read books, what about women? Therefore, the situation of women entering the house as subordinates has not changed much, but the number of men has decreased greatly.

Women can not completely replace the role of men in labor, large families find that fewer and fewer men are willing to enter the government as servants, even if the salary is high, few families are willing, they all go to study, eat potatoes can be full, they all want to be scholars, or go to the military academy to join the army, who wants to be slaves for several generations? Therefore, for a while, the number of male housekeepers in large families dropped significantly, and the coolies in the house were no longer enough to bear the daily needs.

In this case, the demand for foreign slaves suddenly soared, and the country needed these slaves to do coolies, so as to exempt the people of the Tang Dynasty from the essentials, and to produce and study as soldiers with peace of mind, and let the coolies do it. This is also one of the reasons why the number of male subordinates in the mansions of high-ranking families has decreased significantly.

So what to do? Big families also need the house, no man is willing to be a subordinate, they have to go out, or study, and they are willing to stay at home to farm or go to the merchant to find work, at least to earn their own wages, and they don't want to do those things that are slaves, so the trade of foreign slaves came into being, and every time the Tang army goes out, it will always bring back a lot of slaves, sometimes the slaves around the country are not very scarce, there will be wealth, instead of keeping it for white rice, why not hand it over to the imperial court to sell to increase income?

Du Ruhui put forward this bill in the name of the vertical and horizontal Shangshu, which was supported by many people, so it was put into practice, and every time the Tang army came back from the expedition and brought a large number of foreign captives and had no place to ask for them, there would be many housekeepers of large families who waved money to buy these slaves and brought them back as coolies to fill the lack of male subordinates.

Moreover, although the money exchanged for these slaves was sold by the Public Slave Department as a state department, seventy percent of the cost could be directly allocated to the capture troops of these slaves as additional military expenses to improve their lives. (To be continued......)